AutoCAD
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This was an interesting one. I received an email from someone working on a significant BIM project that required external validation of some piping data coming from a competitive system. This system generates SAT files that – when imported into AutoCAD – represent pipes as surfaces rather than native AutoCAD (meaning Plant 3D or MEP) […]
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While developing the prototype ShapeShifter-AutoCAD integration, last week, it became clear that the user really needed something to look at as geometry was being marshalled across between the JavaScript hosting process and AutoCAD's address space. We might have used a standard progress bar, of course, but decided to do something a bit different: implement a […]
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It's been a really interesting and productive few days here in Tel Aviv. In a sense it was too short a trip – I was penned in by commitments during the weekends either side of it – but despite that a lot was achieved. I didn't get to see very much of the city – […]
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I was up in Adelboden, this weekend, for the Men's FIS World Cup Slalom and Giant Slalom events. Yes, just watching – not participating 🙂 – although I did get the chance to catch a few much gentler slopes on my snowboard during the course of the weekend. On the Saturday – during the Giant […]
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Before the break, I had a characteristically insightful comment from Gilles Chanteau on a post regarding the DGNPURGE implementation that was released as a Hotfix for AutoCAD 2013 and 2014. As usual with these things, sometimes you don't see the wood for the trees once you've started down a particular path. Here's the comment in […]
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Yesterday I was reminded that 200 sessions from Autodesk University 2013 were recorded and have been made available on-demand – for free! Many great classes are available as well as the keynote and innovation forum sessions. I believe you need to create a free Autodesk account to view them, if you don't already happen to […]
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Robots have been on my mind quite a bit, lately. They were everywhere at last month's Autodesk University, for instance, whether the 3D scanning robot wandering around the conference – and even showing up at the Blogger's Social – Bot & Dolly's impressively choreographed robot at the opening keynote or LEGO Mindstorms in the Exhibit […]
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During the general wind-down before Autodesk's annual "week of rest", I've been spending some time this week getting more of my AutoCAD-Kinect integration samples working with the pre-release Kinect for Windows 2.0 device and SDK. Things are actually working pretty well: all samples – barring those that rely on capabilities that aren't yet part of […]
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I wasn't expecting to write a third part in this series of posts, but then Samir Bittar went and asked a follow-up question that I felt obliged to look into. Thanks for the suggestion, Samir! 🙂 Samir basically wanted to provide the user with more feedback as they're selecting the nested entity – so that […]
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In the last post, we introduced the idea of preventing object snapping on certain objects by tagging them with XData and then attaching an overrule within AutoCAD to stop it from getting osnap information for them. This worked very well for standard, single-object snap modes – such as center, quad, mid, end, etc. – but […]